Cardboard tire-stand.



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it keewe. thetwe. Nimiiie M. .Dori :me :md J. (meme, citizens of theUnited States, emi residing 'et Cincineet, in the county of HemiltonendStute o Ghie, ybeve invented e. new and useful y 'fovement in CerdboerlTire-Stands, of e. the foewng speeiesitien is a, full tiem-esule. A

e iiveneo ieietes te e. twe piece cerd- 1, eimpfie and strong eereboed'tine etezifi, which een be 'Whely assembled at the ectoiy, shipped;fief, en@ epened 'by the mi femetien.

uejeet eveetion is to proe sii-e1 ei twe i'eeriioers: of euch ourinvention me more the description of the @Wing immuni; e part ofliberte. wie Y ei: the two pieces ,..eeteiry 1n fiat o1" ibeirs mpi'ises:i eee-tions if?, 3, proany irme, epposite ends et' eiefiiie the'iegoneily pe'eiwy the -te i3.; he eveieppiiig eitremithe emi sections 2,3, ereermed I-ii pivete erioes 'Y end the upper gi-e ei? euri seetois 2,3, have the eeneeve eoiitoui 8. n the factory the end eee'en 2 of onememier'ere nterlepped tie eed eeeten 3 ofthe opposite seci ci seemed bypivets 9 et each end of eteee, the eoiieave merging registering te thetime reeeivinf; notches 10. `When etteeee tiie'ueited memfiers arefolded so that when opened up into View oit one et the v Het upon theopposite seme? (iegenely folding seoied linee, pvetei eenneetions of theends foiding; ovm tiet against the side members, the side and endmembers overlapping, es shown in Fir. 2.

The user Simply epene up the fiat 'oded members into the stand formationi3, Fig. 3, to support the tire 142. Prefiere-Uv, the Stand is slightlysheliow in relation. to the' diemetei' of a tire tube, so the-t thebottom extremity of the tire Wil tengentely eenteet the ground to helpsupport the tire, It is not necessary te have internal eide wells orbttom. The characteristics e'' the de vice are, e two-piece stam. biedfoiing Het, to open up inte e permenent steed formation, and @pen et theiep en@ heiterem.

In the prefered form ef en? inveiiton, the bottem margins of endsections 2, 3, me upwzmly inclined, as shown et le", l, eli steed formation, there being ne bottega?, tile 'bei-,tem edges of the side Wellsit, alone eenteet the groun, and the bottom edges et the eed Sections 2,3, de Het contact the gesund, eept et the eornere 15, 1-Yneieit'oee thetwo side Wells being connected hy the pivete ends, ulerum on theseground edges. 16, constituting two tire gripping jews, which, when theWeight of the tire is eppef, grip the tire in proportien to the Weight,anni lower the tire into ground eov Having described ou;i eleim;

Imeekdewn stenfi, assuming the feinstem ef e ,ge-mamie, eme. e L arisinge rectangular shell epee -,e tcp and bettom, heJng-Hexibe cornerseeebing the structure to be oided upon itset' F-Qgo-A nelly into fiatform and to epee up inte stand formation, the end weie comprisingpivotelly Gonnected sections, the uope'- mel*- gins being sheped-tosuple-srt e tire.

` 2'. A knock-down ceidbee' tire eenensiend, assuming the general shepeef e frais tum of e pyramid, seid eteetue eempising e rectangular shellepee the enf,

bottom, having exble corners enablingthe' our names, Aas attested by thetwo subscribstrucurefto be cded upon itself dagln-(llly ing Witnesses. e

Junto at orm an to open u into stan o1'- 1 mation, the side walls hvingmarginal 5 ground contact, and the end Walls comprislng pivoallyconnected sections shaped to Witnesses: constitute pmcer jaws to gripthe tire. D. DRACHENBERG,

' In Wtne'ss whereof, We' hereunto subscribe L; A. BECK.

